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n long distance ocean shipping zer- vice.

A South African shipping line are to start a cargo-passenger service from Capetown to. New York.

Three

liners, all of more cargo than 10,000 tons, have been bought from the U.S. Maritime Commission by the South African Marine Cor- poration.

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CROSSWORD SOLUTION

SIR

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THE CAMPING RN, Canada, UDPUST

BY THE ENDS OF THE FRONDS ROOTING AND BULSH "PLANT

"HERE A SHIFTED HULK-”

1821-1893

with Pateman

INDIAN BARKER

-CURIOUS

CANNON FOUND BY BRITISH INDERS AT KURMAUL, INDIA, BY 1339.

LONDON.

How FART is it" FROM LONDON TO F

(a) CANADA, (6) EGYPT, (c) BOTANY BAY,

{{(@) NEW YORK (© BUNKER HILLÉ

(1) PHILADELPHIA? (80 QUEBEC

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SHE WAS DUE TO BE OFFICIARY

LAUNCHED AT BRISTOL

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SCIENCE FEATURE:

RIVAL TO DDT

By PAUL F. ELLIS

A new insecticide has been W

the

ie 1343

POSTMANY

LONGEST & LONEJJEST

ROLAND IN THE EMITĀNE ---

1,270 MILES ONCE A FORTNIGHT-UNACCOMPANIED -ONE LOVELY 260 MILL STREICH WITHOUT A DWELLING OF ANY, AND-BROKEN HILL NORTH-CORDILLA, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

"ALPINE CLIMBING

IN THE

MALAGASH SALT MWE-Mbio Scotia. CANADA'S-& THE EMPIRE'S-LARGEST. THIS SALT DEPOSIT, 100 MILES LONG, IS ESTIMATED TO BE 27 MILLION YEARS OLD -A MILLION YEARS BEFORE THE AGE OF CONL-

AND IS 98.5% PURE.

Answers To Quiz on Fago 12.

Portrait of ‘a hank

of steel wire'

HAT is left of Field- Marshall Montgomery

when

you deduct his battles? What is left of any

tested by scientists at University of Delaware and found to be a rival to DDT in killing house flies, cockroaches man when you leave out the ex- and other types of pests.

pressions of that genius?

The new substance, a chlorinated camphene, is called Moxaphene." investigator the

Sometimes there is force of character rather than richness

In some ways, the found, foxaphene execlis DDT, the of personality. So with Mont- most powerful of all insecticides.

The tests were made on

Aive-day-

gomery.

Alan Moorchend's

old flies and toxaphene, mixed with

a small solution of another chemi-

study.

cal, thunile, knocked the pests out (Montgomery. Hamish Hamil-

in quick order, but not quite

effectively as DDT.

after cubical cages were and flies liberated into them, a 100

percent kill was reported.

Against Bedbugs

with DDT against the Gennan

some

In

Montgomery's

consequence,

of action.

4-A touch of eccentricity. The

glints of quartz

in the rock, The man whom you laugh about- and who therefore silcks in your mind ke a burr.

And he was lucky.

5-^

BOOKS by George Malcolm Thomson

A

Foolish Wind, Francis Askham's new novel (The Bodley Head, 8. Bd.), opens with the description of a train journey across Europe im- is full of officials of one kind and on- mediately after the war. The train other:

soldiers, relief workers, members of various missions, who one by one stop down on to strange duties. An uneasy journey, skilfully station platforms to face unknown adumbrated.

Hugh Percheron is one of a hand ful who remain on the train until It reaches its destination, the capital

JESTS AND JEERS

A smart girl miny succeed in skin- ning a wolf, but aho can't away his hide.

Iako

Shanghai

To ROMO of our visliors. freedom speech seems to mean talking at the top of their voices..

This controversy over Just leaves the man wondering when It's going.

Time was when our founded banks.

hotels.

air mall

In the stroct

conting 'or:

Now they

millionaires open

́she'll

Give a girl on inch, and probably have enough for a swim- stil.

*

"Oh darling, just say those few. words that will 'mean heaven to

"Go jump in the harbour."

me."

Animals are just as sensitive as. human belags to heat and cold, says a scientist. In Hongkong, it's been observed that at this time of year the bulls, begin to wonder if they can bear it.

The Russians won't come in on the Marshall Plan. That's all right. What many are wondering is whether the Americans will come in.

Our political writes:--

correspondent

There is no confirmation from Madrid that Franco is thinking of offering Stalin an economic alliance..

A music lover, is one who, when he hears a girl" singing in the next room, puts his ear to the keyhole.

+

A render complains that he bought a loaf of bread with a lot of Little Insee's in 1, and asks what oction he should

take. Return weevil for

good.

very

The Indy of the house was interested in the new neighbours. "They seem to be such a devoted

couple," she remarked to her ha- band one day. "He kines her every time he goes out, waves to her from the street and blows her kissed Why don't you do the same?"

"Good

*༔

gracious!" he said, "T

aston, 12s. 6d.) is an attempt to and start afresh, Shaw speaks As a residual

agent against illes, draw the portrait with a mini- of "that intensely compacted however, the new killer favourably with DDT. Three days mum of relevant background, hank of steel wire."

really. sprayed For,

family life has very little signi- thing tight and twisted, tense

There is Montgomery! Sonie ficance for his career in war. and violent, humpan and in the book human-a proposition in applied The new solution also was tested suffers some impoverishment of dynamics. cockroach. Both were mixed with interest. With Montgomery it 2-He is excessively interested of Morelia, where he is to assume the don't even know her!"""

thanite. Here agam it sur- is the man in action that mat- vived the test, and the investigaters, not the man

in himself, demanding that direction of a British "cultural" mis- tors reported that toxaphene was "equal as, or slightly more," deadly Besides, Moorehead possibly, terest, if possible, combining it there, however, is

others should share that in slon. His real motive for going to the adult male

male cockroach.

to discover the The Investigators reported

to avoid repeating his earlier with affection. they found the same results in the tests books -

truth about Armid, a young Morelian against bedbugs that toxaphene.

poet, now dead. while somewhat slower than, DDT

He likes praise He is the in it initial-action, equals or-sur-

selfish-actor-manager, keeping a strange places and

The quest takes him into some passes DDT in the anal kill

among queer sharp eye on Toxaphene also was found to be

the electricians, people; he even explores the dark effective

against

Why was Montgomery a good A naughty aspect of character alleys of Morelian politics, then in carialn fabric

I suggest that he on the stage, but how valuable a state of extreme tension. small squares of woollen cloth with brought the following assets to on the battle-field! the substance. It repelled at least his task: three types of wool eating pests, and held its effectiveness after one year,

sacrifices his finest.

quality; the graphic rendering of-battle-piccos.~

pests. The investigators treated general?

1-Concentration of thought 3-Extreme simplicity of mind. The Investigadors admitted that and will. The best descrip Take Montgomery's thoughts DDT was sull the best for killing tion of his physical presence, off mosquitoes, although not by a large margin.

the one which brings him most vividly back

to my visual memory, is that written

No Injury to Plants

Field tests also were

beclic

The

that

Shaw

In the house of Mme. Stepanik, former dressmaker to the Court, he

NO SPAYTA

OLD FOLK AT HOME

meets Vera, a young girl of enigmatic character, doubtful past and com- on War. What banal stuff or pllented present. Percheron falls is it?

wildly in love with her, reaping un- happiness thereby, This, for example: "The

In the end he comes by surest

way to obtain high truth about Armid, which is tor- upon the conducted Bernard Shaw in a letter to morale is by success in battle." tuously related to an old royal love- on snap and lima beans. In which loxaphene was compared with DDr Augustus John after watching A peep into the obvious? But affair and a horrible murder in the and another insecticide, rolenane: Montgomery having his portrait the nature

Erection of two homes for Lon- for the control of the Mexican bean painted.

of human conflict, royal palace.

don's rged homeless was recommend- of which war is only a stylised But, the main value of the book cd by die L.C.C. Sociol Welfare. Investigators found

did not like the pic form is simple and not subtle, lies in its creation of an atmosphere

Committee recently. toxaphene and rotenone caused neture. Neither docs Montgomery, elemental not. Injury to the plants, while DDT

cerebral, To at once tense, futile and neurotic- One at Plumstead Common-road, sprays and dusts caused a yellowing Suggesting to John that he recognise this is the beginning the atmosphere of an unhappy and house 100; the second, at Woodberry Woolwich, to cost £84,300, would and slight stuning of the terminal should wipe it off the canvas of military' wisdom.

unpredictable people. The moral de- Down, Stoke Newington, growth оп both snap and lima

to house gradation following war and occupa- | 94, would cost £83,500 tion is horribly conveyed, The characters, too,

Mr. Douglas A. G. Pritchard, the arrestingly chairman, assured Mr. Jack Gaster drawn, highly individualised, abnorwho had spoken of old people's mal and secretive beings. Vera is reluctance to enter "the Institution" fascinating, it not wholly pleasant, that there had been a very great a twisted, tortured victim of e,

improvement in the treatment given And Percheron himself comes alive,

to old people in L.C.C. institutions, at once emotional and repressed.

The story moves, at first too slowly, too gropingly, then in too much of hurry. Askham has a gift for macabre humour; he exhibits it too.

Special flats for old people are. late. But it is the navel of an un-

Included in the proposed develop- usuni

and distinguished writer. which Battersen Council decided ment of a site In Shirley-grove, More will be heard of him/

beans.

It was just the reverse in tests against insects on cucumbers. Here, toxaphene damaged the plant along with killing of the pests....

The Investigators

Patch

report

that

test studies on 200 unselected i human subjects show that the sub- stance is neither a skin irritant nor Д skin sensitiser, and that it is no cause of irritant or allergenie ac- tlon

substance is tough on

bos killing the animals

dogs,

ap-

their

parghtly by stimulation of central nervous system. Some ex Solution of yesterday's puzzle-perimental dogs were saved

I and 7 Down, Suburban being given sodium

- pentobarbital,

rolled in tubular form, hence pipes. Across:

2, Holy land. 3, Breed of pigeon timetable; 8; Animate; D, La.d.; 11, Sir Malcolm Campbell, king of Totem; 12. Coskade;. 14, Daedal; 15. apzed. 6, Kennington Oval 1872 Tat: 17, Ether: 10, Pisa; 20, Thar; 6. Examine it carefully.. 7. Perth or 31, Tosk; 22, Neglects; 23, Adherence

a strong sedative, United Press.

by

Dublin, Londoh Edinburgh, 8. Down; 1, Salud; 2, Unscathed; 3, NANCY Nipped in the Buds

Crickt. 0, (a) Yorkshire: (b) Bid; 4, Rat; 5, Aetatis; 6, Need; 7, Devan; (c) Isle of Staffa, Inner Seb 1 Across; 10, Mode; 13, Carter; Hebrides; (d) Berkshire. 10, Cloak, 10, Asks; 17, Etna; 16, Hag; 10, Face.

Rupert and the Young Imp-16

Bilt and Podgy lead Rupert round the tree, and thère, just as they said. is one small branch bearing spiky chesinuta, some full and ready to 'burst, “What did I tell you ?*** gu Podgy. But this is quite mad 1

crica Rupert. "It's just the same as happened to our apple tree. at home. Chestnuts and apples shouldn't be here for months yet. There's something very queer going Never mind.". saya kiu.

on

Let's go back and have a game with your new shuttlecock and racket

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